Dress-stay



(No Model.)

B. M. D. LANDENBERGER.

DRESS STAY.

No. 531,684. Patented Jan. 1, 1895.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Fries.

EMMA M. D. LANDENBERGER, OF JOLI-ET, ILLINOIS.

DRESS-STAY.

'EPECIFZCATION, forming part of Letters Patent No. 531,684, dated January 1,1895.

Application filod Angnst 25, 1894. Serial K0. 521,348. (No model.)

4 BERGER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at .Ioliet, in the county of lVill and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stays for Dresses, of which the following is a specification, reference bein-g had therein to the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference thereon, forminga part of this specification, in which Figure l is a plan or face view of a dress stay having an arm pivotally attached to its lower end. Fig.2is an edge view of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan or face view of a dress stay made wider than the one shown in Fig. 1, and having two arms pivotally attached to the lower end, and designed for use at the points of the waist either in front or at the back, and Fig. 4 is an edge View of the same.

This invention relates to certain improvements in stays for dresses which improve ments are fully set forth and explained in the following specification and claim.

Referring to the drawingsA represents the main or principal leaf of .the stay having an auxiliary leaf B attached thereto by means of a rivet S at its upper end, and a pivot r at its lower end, the secondary or auxiliary leaf B being for the purpose of reinforcing and strengthening the lower end of the stay.

D is an arm pivotally attached at its center to the lower end of the stay by means of the pivot 7*, either between the two leaves of the stay, or at one side as may be desired.

Vhen the stay is designed for use at the points of the waist, it is intended to pivotally attach two arms D thereto as shown in Fig. 3. It is necessary that the said arms shall be pivoted at their center to the stay, otherwise their free end would turn up to be parallel with the stay, and not perform the service for which it is intended.

The principal stay A is provided along each of its edges with integral lugs G having eyes through which it may be sewed to a garment.

In use or operation the stay, or a series of stays are designed to be placed in the dress waist in the usual manneras shown in Fig. 4, placing the pivoted arms in the hem in the lower edge of the waist, and nearenough to each other so said arms will meet and till said hem entirely around the waist, placing astay having the two pivoted arms at the points of the waist. As these arms D are pivoted at their center their ends cannot turn up, but they will lie in the hem at any angle to the stay controlled by the angle of the hem, and will hold the lower edge of the waist to its proper form, and prevent the ends of the stay from punching through the cloth.

I am aware that stays having arms pivotally connected at one end to the stay have been heretofore used, which construction I do not claim, as when said arm is only pivoted at one end to the stay, it will turn up and fail to preserve the form of the waist, and also permit the stay to punch through the cloth, all of which is entirely prevented by pivoting the arm at its center to the stay.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

Asa new article of manufacture a dress stay comprising a stiffener having an'arm pivotally connected at its center, to its lower end substantially as set forth.

E. M. D. LANDENBERGER. Witnesses:

' LOUISE Bonnnen,

ELISE BOEHMER. 

